by George E. Oliver | Mar 16, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are taking the fight to the “World of Woke.” They are seeking to eliminate programs and personnel previously engaged in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, which has sparked a lot of understandable...
by George E. Oliver | Dec 7, 2022 | Opinion
The legendary Sandy Ray once preached of the nature of the prophetic and that it’s not so much there’s a voice crying in the wilderness, as it is that “the wilderness needs a voice.” Wild is a pretty apt description of what has been taking place in our nation and...
by George E. Oliver | Dec 6, 2022 | Opinion
The world needs people willing to change their religion. I’m not actually suggesting mass hopping or swapping between houses of faith, but a mass movement, individually and collectively, to transform whole faiths. Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human...
by George E. Oliver | Aug 23, 2022 | Opinion
Pastors go through seasons of doubt. Sometimes, they’re long. You doubt yourself, the world, the future and even God. Maybe it’s wrong to admit this publicly, but this is reality. Pastors aren’t immune to being impacted by what we’re asked to...
by George E. Oliver | Jun 29, 2022 | Opinion
Bodily autonomy’s centrality to the existence of liberty is genetically encoded in my memory, in my very being. I reflect on a profound irony of two starkly contrasting events that took place in the same week. A son of Texas, a descendant of former slaves finally...